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Dante Booker, Tim Drew, Joey Nygem, Greg

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He was the leading scorer in the city, had just finished his senior year of high school and was still a year away from graduating.   When Dante Booker introduced them to each other one day at Akron East HS, they had no idea that the road they were about to travel together would . . . (more)

GREG'S TESTIMONY

It was my redshirt senior year and things weren't going well at all.  I lost the previous year to a foot injury, plus had some legal issues.  Now things were going from bad to worse because of my attitude and Coach Greg Marshall talked about kicking me off the team.
    John Saucier and I first met in high school through a mutual friend (Dante Booker - Auburn, NFL), and I soon started playing  for TEAM JAM's AAU basketball team.  Eventually, John and TEAM JAM helped turn my life around by helping me get to a Christian high school for my last year.  It was a big change because of the different culture, the location and the Christianity. But it improved every area of my life.
      After that I went to two different junior colleges before transferring to  Division I Winthrop. My first year there I was my team's leading scorer, First Team All-Conference and MVP of the Conference Tournament . . . leading us to the NCAA tournament.
     During the next season, while I was hurt, John was explaining to me that God was trying to get my attention.  He called it a "spiritual injury" that God was using to get me to spend more time with Him. In spite of other problems, I was avoiding God.  And now, with no more time left in my college career to make mistakes, the head coach and I weren't getting along at all.  
     John had been in touch with the coaches and knew what was going on.  He surprised me with a visit to the college a few games into the season.  He brought down a few other TEAM JAM people that I knew  all the way from Ohio to S.C. and they all sat in the coach's office and went over what was going on.  It was hard to sit through, but they all told me how much they believed in me and how much I was throwing my future away and God's plan to better my life. 
     Then John took me aside.  He didn't say much and it was kind of emotional because of all that we had been through together. There wasn't much more to be said.  He reminded me of all the sacrifices that had been made to get me to this point, and that they hadn't been made so that I could blow it and waste all their effort.           
     There wasn't anything else that needed to be said except that it was time for me to be serious about God, let Him be my Savior, and give Him an honest effort to doing things God's way instead of mine.  From that point on my season was different, my life was different and I knew for sure that Christ was my Savior . . . . just like I had known I needed to be for a long time.  My life really hasn't been the same since !!!     

FINLAND - 2003

Single Game Points:          34  (30 in playoffs)
Single Game Rebounds:   15 (16 in playoffs)
Reg. Season Scor. Avg.:   19.8
Reg. Season Reb. Avg.:     9.4
Reg. Season FG %:            54%
Playoff Scoring Avg.:        22.4
Playoff Reb. Avg.:             11.0
Combined Scoring Avg.:  21.1 pts (20 total games)
Combined Reb. Avg.:        10.2

KTP lost their final game of the season by two points 105-103, but Greg went out with a flurry.  Scoring 30 points, including 10 of 11 from the free throw line, and adding 9 rebounds, and only one turnover, he accounted for most of his team's production.  Teammate James Head added 31 points and 4 rebounds.  

KTP was beaten badly on the boards 42-20, but still managed to shoot more from the field and the line.  Defensively, they just weren't able to stop PuHu, who won their first bronze medal.  KTP finished in fourth.

LEWIS RISES TO CHALLENGE
With the series on the line against BC, Greg rose to the occasion with a 27 pt., 11 reb. game in an effort to stave off elimination. It wasn't enough, however, and KTP was forced into the Bronze medal series with their close loss.

KTP then lost the first game of their consolation series against PuHU 107-92.  Greg and American teammate James Head, grabbed all but three of KTP's rebounds.  Greg shot 75% from the field while scoring 25 pts., grabbing 14 rebounds, and making 6 steals.  HE is still second among all playoff performers in per game rebounds with 11.0.  He is also seventh in scoring during the playoffs at 21.5.  Even more amazing is the fact that all of his scoring comes during the flow of the game, as there are no plays designed for the Americans on KTP team.

Greg will be arriving back in the states by the April 4-5th weekend.  Look for him to show up again in the United States Basketball League in mid-April.

Greg Lewis scored 30 points in his 1st Play-Off game

  PLAY-OFF HEAT IS ON! - Mar. 14, 2003 - by Pekka Konttinen

MARCH 14.  1ST ROUND OF SM-LEAGUE PLAYOFF GAMES       Quarrter-Finals:

Home teams were strong at first round of SM-League quarter-final games on friday.Lot of points were seen in Kotka, where home team KTP scored as much as 120 points against visitor BC Jyväskylä. KTP's new american forward James Head (199-G/F-75, agent: Mc Intyre Frank, college: E.Michigan) showed that he is able to play in several positions (29 points, 3.p 5/8) another american Greg Lewis (198-F-, college: Winthrop) was even more effective (30 points).BC Jyväskylä's lightning quick guard Petri Virtanen (184-G-80, agent: Veromejus Mindaugas) tried to keep his team in the game, but tonight KTP's offence was solid as a rock. Kouvot almost surprised Honka in Espoo, but Honka's american duo Grant & Cross finally turned the game to home team with their 3 point shots. PuHu beated Vilpas at home as expected and regular season winner Kataja didn't let LrNMKY to suprise them. Next games will be played tomorrow (on saturday 15.3)
Kataja - LrNMKY  76-68 (36-32) Kataja leads series 1-0
Honka - Kouvot  69-65 (27-38) Honka leads series 1-0
PuHu - Vilpas  90-80 (50-43) PuHu leads series 1-0 
KTP - BC Jyväskylä  120-101 (57-54) KTP leads series 1-0

LEWIS LEADING KTP OF FINLAND

After a short stint with Greenville, Greg was picked up at the beginning of February by the strong KTP club in the first division in Finland.  In the last thirteen games of the season, Greg averaged a little over 20 points and 9.5 rebounds per game, while shooting 55% from the field.  Playing out of position due to injuries to his teammates, Greg still continues to out-rebound bigger opponents.

Greg's first game in Finland was a "double-double" (25 pts. and 12 rebs.), and he has continued to have big games including 30 pts. in a big win over a second place rival, vaulting KTP into third place, and 30 pts. and 8 rebs. in his first playoff game.  KTP won their first playoff series to make it into the "Final Four" of Finland, with Greg scoring 25 pts. and grabbing 16 rebs. in the decisive game 5, one point win, over BC.  After 6 playoff games, Greg was scoring 20 pts. a game and was second among all playoff participants with rebounds per game at 10.8.  

BRAZIL - 2004

As of May 15, 2004

Greg's team Londrina Stats

SEASON HIGHS
Single Game Points:            31  
Single Game Rebounds:    13

SEASON AVERAGES
Reg. Season Scoring Avg.:   16.6  (11th in league)
Reg. Season Reb. Avg.:           5.0
Reg. Season FG %:                  56% (3rd in league)
Reg. Season 2 pt. %:               61%  (3rd in the league)
Reg. Season FT%:                   64%  (20th in league)

Averaged 28 minutes per game.

NBDL ALLOCATES LEWIS TO THE GREENVILLE GROOVE -2002

The two year old minor league to the NBA, allocated Greg Lewis to the defending champion Greenville Groove franchise in South Carolina.  Greenville is just over an hour away from Rock Hill, S.C. where Lewis was a standout for Winthrop University.